Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to indicate understanding or to signal the fact of having caught or defeated another.
- n. A game or endeavor in which one party seeks to catch another out, as in a mistake or lie.
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial A potential problem or source of trouble.
- colloquial Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- colloquial Understand; comprehend.
- colloquial Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- colloquial Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- colloquial Got you by surprise; Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
- colloquial Got you by surprise; as in engineering or computer programming; typically an unintended consequence or problem caused by a small variation in areas such as command syntax, function definition, results application.
Etymologies
- Written form of a reduction of got you. got + -cha (Wiktionary)
- Contraction of got you. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Besides, the term "gotcha question" is so out of fashion.”
“Some people are criticizing last night's presidential debate, including Barack Obama, who likened it to what he calls gotcha games.”
“The governor supporters say that's partly because she's been a victim of what they call gotcha journalism, and they say working class voters are firmly behind her regardless.”
“The Governor attacks what she calls gotcha journalism in her latest sit - down interview, a new interview.”
“I think that part of what we call gotcha journalism today -- the idea that the function of a reporter is to catch an official in a lie, in a some kind of minor misfeasance -- is partly the result of Watergate.”
“Your use of the word "gotcha" in mock irony suggests that bringing this up is a mere debating trick.”
“Newt Gingrich, whose candidacy has floundered, argued repeatedly with the debate panel over what he described as "gotcha" questions when his internal campaign problems and contradictory statements came up.”
“The possible gotcha is that your phone might be "Locked" to AT&T.”
“That the time and effort of the police were wasted in some absurd political game of gotcha is the real pity here.”
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“If Hannity's is a for-profit, commercial broadcasting enterprise and not a registered political action committee, is it possible Hannity's show is breaking election laws by turning the show into a three hour daily "gotcha" - thon during elections?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gotcha’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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ptssssssss
uemph
sandcastle, for all to see, but, mostly, them, if they wish, sorta hope, maybe, pop-up, snap, gotcha, cause then i have... and 20 more...
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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Sometimes You Just Gotta.
oughta, stedda, woulda, coulda, shoulda, didna, lotta, gotta, betta, imma, holla, mighta and 22 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Scripted Apathy
How to sound like you're paying attention when you're really more interested in your plans for the weekend. Bonus points for actually printing this script out and reading it in front of the windbag...
mmhmm, yeah, ok, sure, of course, oh yeah, yep, 'kay, hmm, interesting, perhaps, absolutely and 37 more...
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Matts List
Its like the best words ever duh.
comediest, tweak, vezeke, gotcha, awesomely, pur, shant, grest, exactamoondo, cablammage
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suddenly
you meet the word suddenly.
Tweets
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